Re^2: LWP on Windows: whitespace removed from HTML

This sounds very much like a http proxy that strips whitespace from the pages before delivering them to you. Is there any proxy in your way?

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Re^3: LWP on Windows: whitespace removed from HTML by Anonymous Monk on May 06, 2008 at 19:38 UTC
Not that I'm aware of. The laptop is using a cellular air-card, so it's not sitting behind a proxy server on the company network. The laptop does see line breaks if I view source from the browser; it's just when I use Perl to download the content that I experience the lack-of-whitespace issues.	[reply]
Re^4: LWP on Windows: whitespace removed from HTML by pvbcharon (Beadle) on May 07, 2008 at 13:24 UTC
Just my $0.02... I've seen providers forcing the use of compressing proxies, especially in the cellular networks here in germany. White-space gets stripped, images get resized and so on, all in order to save bandwidth. This doesn't explain why you see the whitespace in your browser but perhaps it helps.	[reply]